My Spitter and Me!

Here we are at rehearsals for You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. Donny loves the activity of so many kids running, dancing and singing... I love break time when I get to hold him!

 

Where did you go? Part 2

Okay, Now for Donny pictures!

Over the past couple of weeks he has stopped smiling for the camera. Or looking at it much.... he will be smiling away and talking to me, and then I put the camera in front of my face and he looks away and stops smiling. He can't find the source of his smiles, so he moves on! As evidenced below!
   

When we do get him looking at the camera, the smile has faded:

   

Here he is hanging out with Daddy sitting in his own grown up chair (though it is a really uncomfortable chair for grown ups!)

    

The moments I will always treasure come in those quiet spontaneous naps. Me, holding him, breathing in his scent (as vile as spit up smells, I still love it!), catching up on missed sleep in the middle of a Sunday afternoon.

 

Where did you go?

I think I should change the name of my blog to "Donny Unlimited" or something! You'd think that I don't do anything else now but take pictures of my little man! The truth is that I do have another life that is all theater all the time... but I don't really document that in photos.

I just finished casting my current show "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" which will go up the first and second weekend of December. That is going to be a lot of fun. I am really pleased with my cast.

We also just finished with our big fundraiser for the year. We raised over 75K this year! What a blessing that is! I have been very busy with budgeting, planning, training, hiring, etc.... for the growth that our company has had over the last year.

Oh, and I turned 35. Wow! I still feel 25....

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Three Months Old!

See how big he's getting!  So you don't have to scroll down to compare I am putting first his one week picture then today - three months!

3 month stats

At three months, our Donny weighs 13lb 10oz and measures about 23 inches long (you try measuring a wiggly Donny with a paper tape measure and see how accurate you'll be!) He sleeps eleven hours every night from 8pm to 7am. He smiled and talked to us today for the first time while bathing.

Almost Three Months old!

Our topic for today's entry is my son's growing belly.  Over the last couple of weeks he's put on quite a bit, thanks to the advice of a friend who told me to let him eat as much as he wants. The first time we let him eat until he had enough he ate 10 ounces!  I guess he was hungry! So... he eats six to eight ounces at every feeding.  He's happier, and pudgier!  So cute!    He's always hiking up his clothes - usually he has a sleeper or a onesie on, so this chance to expose his midriff and thighs was great fun for him! Donny has been coming to work with me, but since my office is too small for both of us and his swing, he has been hanging out just outside my door in his work swing.  He loves it!  Takes all his afternoon naps there. I am able to work and keep an eye on him.  By the time he needs to be held and fed, its my break time anyway! He has decided that he is a big boy now, and doesn't need to be scared when we undress him for diaper changes and baths.   This makes life more pleasant for all of us! He's winking at you!   And he looks so grown up in big boy clothes!    He is starting to interact with his toys more, although I don't think he knows he's holding them when they flail about.  But he watches them! And here's that fabulous belly once again.  Notice that he is starting to look more like his daddy.

New favorites

Donny loves his Baby Bumbo which helps him sit upright.  Andy calls it his spit up seat because he spits up as soon as we put him in it.  We snapped these pictures as he was sitting on the island looking at the pots hanging from our new pot rack.   We also took him to the doctor for his two month check up this week.  He weighed 11 lb 8 oz and measured 21 3/4 inches long.  That puts him at the fiftieth percentile for head size and weight, and the tenth for height.  He also got his shots :( which he did not like.  He loved the oral vaccine though, and cried for more.  He was a bit fussy before bed and had a small fever in the night and needed a little tlc at three am.  Otherwise, he did fine with his big doctor's appointment.